A How To Train Your Dragon Fansite

DreamWorks has recently released a new story app under DreamWorks Press! The iPhone app lets the reader join Hiccup and Toothless' adventures in new lands and introduces you to new dragons!

Want to try out the new app yourself? We are giving away two free copies of the app, one on Twitter and one on Tumblr (share both posts for two chances to win)! The two winners will be chosen on August 3 at 12 pm PT! Good luck! If you don't win, you can still download the app on the App Store for $4.99.

The app is kind of a mix between a game and physical picture book. It features a new (adorable) art style that is flatter and more stylized than the film, but still keeps a lot of the character's small details. There is also a 3D mini-game where the reader can play fetch with Toothless:

In the story, you start out floating underwater, holding what turns out to be a dragon egg with no memory of who you are. After reaching the surface, you meet Hiccup and Toothless, who decide to help you hatch the egg and figure out your past.

At the moment, only the first book is available in the app, with at least one other book planned. In the first book, Hiccup and Toothless accidentally give you a tour of Berk and introduce you to the other main characters: Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut.

Although it's a bit difficult figuring out how to control the story (it gives you no indication of when to swipe to the next page, and there is no immediate feedback telling you if your swipe was successful), the story is fun to read through.

It's an clearly designed with younger players in mind, but the story and art are entertaining for older dragon fans as well. It's also very nicely combines the TV show world with the film world, with references to Dagur, and briefly, Bucket. (It's good to know that they will still be alive by the second film.)

This is definitely an app you should add to your dragon app collection! It will be fun to see where they go with the rest of the story. Hopefully, this story will end up developing in parallel with the TV show world and the movie world in the future.

I'm curious about the two new dragons. Are these two new dragon characters (Stokehead and Groundsplitter maybe?) or are these two new dragon species? Alo this app sounds really cool, I wish I had a smartphone.

Hey, have you guys heard? The short movie will have subtitle Dawn of the Dragon Racers. And it'll be released along with HTTYD2 DVD some time at this November! I assume it will takes place before the events before the movie. Nevertheless, it sounds awesome! :D

I really love the art of this app. I thought it was neat! It was kind of annoying because of the swiping your finger across the screen, but otherwise it was nice. (: I hope they just fix it up a little bit with the swiping screen.

There's so many weird things about this pic.- Both his shoulder pads are the left ones.- Both of his arm has his small dagger.- His hair bends to the left instead of his usual left.- He has his left foot (O_o)!- The Catridge for his inferno is on his left foot instead of his right foot.

All in all, ....Can't wait for this to come out in Nov. I need to Pre-order this right away :)

Gods, it's been almost two weeks since the last post on BGV! I'm starting to go into withdrawal. I wonder if they're going to release any clips or pictures from Dawn of the Dragon Riders like they did for HTTYD 2. Also, I know it's still almost two years away, but I wonder when we're going to start seeing some stuff about HTTYD 3. Or how about at least some more info about the third season of the show? ANYTHING!!

Hopefully they will start showing some things about the episodes soon, and I'm sure they will once the series begins, but I don't think we are going to start seeing anything on the third movie until next summer (that's about the same time posts were made about the 2nd one)

Kind of think of it, is this the only movie short we will have? It would be nice to have a short where Astrid/other guys in the gang/Valka is the main topic. Like what they did with Gobber in Legend of the Boneknapper. :D

So... do you have a School of Dragons account? I've been meaning to meet people but I don't know anyone on it. All of my friends I know aren't into it, I think, as I am. I know my sister isn't but she's weird. She's into anime but can respect HTTYD. I don't want so seem like a weirdo or too forward. Just want to see if I can chat with anyone on SOD.